Motif
deceptive hollow image concealing enemies
deceptive_hollow_image_concealing_enemies
A motif of the Sacred Treasures and Power Objects family, within the sub-family Cursed and Fatal Objects. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 980-1059 confidence: high
The Trojans open the walls, attach wheels and ropes to the wooden engine, draw it into the city with hymns, hear armor sound within it four times at the gateway, ignore Cassandra’s warning, and prepare the city festively before nightfall.
The wooden horse is brought into the city as an image or engine, but it contains armed Greeks who emerge at night and attack.
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